Alaska Justice Forum

• Main Authors: UAA Justice Center, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Rieger, Lisa
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage 1996
• Subjects: Alaska Court System; Alaska Department of Corrections; Alaska Legal Services Corporation; Alaska Statutes; civil law; correctional inmates; corrections; courts; criminal defense; fairness & access to the courts; indigent legal services; legal assistance; public defender; recidivism; sex offender treatment program (SOTP); sex offenders; Alaska; Alaska Justice Forum
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3265

The Summer 1996 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum presents several articles on legal resources, both criminal and civil, available to Alaskans with low incomes, describing services provided by the Alaska Public Defender's office and Alaska Legal Services Corporation; criteria for determining indigency when assigning public counsel in Alaska; a 1996 amendment to Alaska's Public Defender Act; criminal defense services for low income people throughout the United States; and tort reform efforts in Alaska and nationwide which may result in decreased access to the courts for individuals with low incomes. An additional article describes results of a recidivism study of participants in the Sex Offender Treatment Program at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center from January 1987 to August 1995. "Indigent Legal Services in Alaska" / "Indigency Criteria" / "Act Amended" / "Indigent Criminal Defense: A National Perspective (A BJS Report)" / "Tort Reform and Access to the Courts" by Lisa Rieger / "Sex Offender Treatment Program" "1996–97 Judicial Fellows Program"